Leaking the secret of Snow White

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When another dwarf gets one of those notes he can call a public-alchemist-wizard. They run around everywhere and when they see the note they now exactly how to reconstruct the gold nugget. The only thing they need to know is which fairy took the gold apart. If they reassemble gold taken apart by another fairy, a completely different nugget would be the result. Since the result would be completely different for different fairies, no dwarf can forge a message and make the others believe that somebody else engraved it on the nugget. Old Grumpy could have used this method to make the council believe that the message came from a reputable source. But then everybody could have seen that it was him who leaked the secret. It was Old Grumpy’s task to create a way he could send a special message. This message should make the Great Council believe that one of the seven dwarfs sent it but should make it impossible to find out which one. It took some time but finally he had an idea. The idea involved the legendary gold-smiths that to my mind have not been mentioned yet in history. People did not really like those guys, since they were not easy to deal with. They did excellent work at no question, but there were a few things that made working with them difficult: • They normally take a few gold nuggets and make jewellery or ornaments out of it. They are really sensitive with their working material. That means if you give them a handful of nuggets and tell them you want something, they decide on every single nugget, how that something will look. That means, if you replace one of the nuggets you hand them, the crafts piece will look completely different. • They are really consistent in their work. Once they find the perfect way of forging the nuggets, they will exactly reproduce that peace of art for the same nuggets. (Normally you could not give them a nugget twice. But remember that the alchemist-wizards can produce the same nugget over and over again from the same message.)
Old Grumpy once had a gold-smith forge a ring with a big diamond on it. And he remembered the fact: • The smith was so taken by the look of the diamond that he designed the ring not only by the different nuggets, but also by the diamond. This had the effect that the smith needed one gold nugget more to finish the ring because he wanted it bigger. The gold-smith needed a nugget that exactly fit his description. He would not take any other nugget. Another nugget would not close the ring. Finding a nugget at this special size was not really hard for a dwarf so it was ok. Old Grumpy’s idea for a signature - he calls ring signature - and that satisfies his needs was: 1. Look for a diamond and write on it that Snow White stays at their house. 2. Create six random notes that look like notes created by alchemist-fairies. 3. Give those notes to an alchemist-wizard and tell him they come each from another dwarf. The wizard then produces six gold nuggets. 4. Give the diamond and the six nuggets to the gold-smith. He will then ask for a seventh nugget to finish his work. 5. Find that nugget and tell the private alchemist-fairy to produce a note as when sending a message. 6. Reconstruct a copy of the nugget and give it to the gold-smith who then finishes the ring. The signature consists of: • the seven notes on how to construct the nuggets • the corresponding names of the dwarves (since the alchemist-wizard needs those) • the diamond To check this signature the Great council will: 1. Construct the nuggets from the notes. 2. Give the nuggets and the diamond to a gold-smith. 3. Retrieve a ring if the signature was correct or be asked by the gold-smith for a further nugget to finish the ring. If the message was changed on the diamond, the gold-smith would be inspired another way and produce a different ring. If somebody else tried to produce the signature whose name is not on the list, he could not close the ring – since he would not be able to construct the seventh note that looked like Old Grumpy’s note. He cannot guess that note, since a little change in the note changes the outcome of the transformation to the nugget by the alchemist-wizard. Old Grumpy was really happy that he had discovered a way to get rid of Snow White. He engraved the message to the diamond, created the ring and was getting ready to send it. The instance that the gopher appeared he heard the other dwarves scream in terror. They had
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